Gerhard Wiese (lawyer)
Gerhard Wiese (born August 26, 1928 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer . He was a prosecutor in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial .
Life
Wiese was drafted as a flak helper during the Second World War at the age of 16 . After being deployed in and around Berlin, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets in early 1945 . He was released in August 1945. He then began to study law in Berlin . He passed his state examination in Frankfurt am Main . From 1960 he worked at the Fulda public prosecutor's office as an assistant assessor, and from February 1961 he worked for the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office.
After being selected for this task by Fritz Bauer , he was involved in the preparations for the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials from the summer of 1962 . Wiese represented the indictment together with the two public prosecutors Joachim Kügler and Georg Friedrich Vogel , and he wrote the indictment against Wilhelm Boger and Oswald Kaduk . In 1965 17 defendants were sentenced to life or long imprisonment. Boger and Kaduk received life imprisonment as offenders. Three defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence.
In 1966 Gerhard Wiese was a trial observer in East Berlin in the proceedings against the camp doctor Horst Fischer , who was ultimately sentenced to death.
From 1971, Wiese worked as a senior public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main. In 1989 he was promoted to deputy head of the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office. In 1993, Wiese stopped the search for the main Nazi perpetrator, Josef Mengele , as his death was definitely proven by DNA analyzes. Wiese was 1993 in retirement .
Since then, Wiese has been giving lectures on the Auschwitz trials at the invitation of universities. His memories of the trials flowed into the script for the feature film Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (2014), at whose German premiere Wiese received a standing ovation from the audience.
On November 14, 2017, Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas Wiese presented the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . This honored Wieses professional work in the judicial service as well as his voluntary commitment in the culture of remembrance. On September 13, 2018, together with the Fritz Bauer Institute , he was awarded the Georg August Zinn Prize of the SPD Hessen .
Wiese lives in Frankfurt-Dornbusch .
literature
- Susanne Meinl: In the labyrinth of guilt: perpetrators, victims, prosecutors (Ed. Fritz Bauer Institute), Campus, Frankfurt am Main, 2003 ISBN 978-3-59337373-7 , p. 315 ff.
Web links
- Facts about the Auschwitz Trial 1963–1965 . Website of the Fritz Bauer Institute .
- Participants in the process : The jury court in the criminal case against Mulka u. a., 4 Ks 2/63 (1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Investigation proceedings of the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office, 4 Js 1173/62
- ↑ "Auschwitz? I knew precious little" at welt.de, accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ Many movie heroes and one real hero at faz.net, accessed on February 24, 2015
- ↑ Maas presents Gerhard Wiese with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon. Website of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (accessed on November 14, 2017).
- ↑ Georg-August-Zinn-Preis 2018. SPD Hessen , September 13, 2013, accessed on June 14, 2020 .
- ↑ The process of his life ( Memento of the original of February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at fnp.de, accessed on February 24, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiese, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, senior public prosecutor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 26, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |